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Activist short-selling campaigns have shaken stock prices and grabbed headlines in Canada this year, leading some observers to question whether the country’s securities regulators are doing enough to police both the companies accused of a range of flaws and the short sellers whose commentary on social media can now move markets.
In an exclusive interview, Maureen Jensen, chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, told the Financial Post the OSC is committed to scrutinizing the new wave of activity for evidence of wrongdoing, but cautioned that the bar for enforcement is high.

Jaap Buitendijk/ParamountFor most investors, buying and holding a stock is extremely intuitive.
When you go long, you are betting on that particular company’s success. You are hoping that the market values the stock higher in the future than they do today. Then, when you sell your stake in the company, you’ll realize those gains for a profit.

Is there anything that rankles populists who are "anti-speculator" more than the ability to short stocks? From time to time countries that are upset about falling markets will ban short-selling. But I have defended stock (and other asset shorting) as a critical market mechanism that helps to limit damaging bubbles.

Greek regulators are struggling to protect banking stocks from further market value cuts, amid a considerably unclear economic environment. A short selling ban extension on Greek banking shares, that was scheduled to expire yesterday, was extended further by authorities today. The extension will now expire on Dec 21.

The debate about the usefulness of sovereign credit default swaps (SCDS) intensified with the outbreak of sovereign debt stress in the euro area. SCDS can be used to protect investors against losses on sovereign debt arising from so-called credit events such as default or debt restructuring.

Short selling stock is a tool that can help keep markets more stable. However, short selling can be used to manipulate the market and in the last decade naked short selling has contributed to such manipulation. The SEC has made permanent a temporary rule that was approved in 2008 in response to continuing concerns regarding “fails to deliver” and potentially abusive “naked” short selling.

NEW DELHI: China's mainland benchmark index Shanghai Composite settled 5.76 per cent higher on Thursday, recouping most of the losses it witnessed in the preceding session, thanks to a slew of measures unveiled by the government in a bid to stem the fall. The China barometer ended the day at 3,709.33 on a turnover of 673.3 billion yuan ($110.1 billion), in what could be judged as a highly volatile day.

The two biggest truisms of short-selling are not actually true. This weekend, Jim Chanos, famed short selling and director of Kynikos Associates, was a guest on Barry Ritholtz's Master in Business program on Bloomberg Radio.